Memorials in England

This modest site memorializes a World War II mission described without hyperbole as “the greatest raid of all.”

These stained-glass windows are all that remains of a building that was the target of one of the biggest explosions in London after World War II.

A famed admiral left behind this 17th-century house key when he joined the British Navy.

A strange Georgian folly sits atop a lonely hill.

A bronze sculpture of last Sikh maharaja of the Punjab, outside the English estate where he once lived.

It holds a fabulously designed tribute to astronomer Edmond Halley.

On May 2, 1845, crowds gathered to watch a clown and four geese sail upstream in a bathtub. Then disaster struck.

A small stone memorial marks the spot where a Bristol Beaufort aircraft crashed in 1941.

In the 1970s, the citizens of several small villages came together to stop their homes from being destroyed for a new airport.

An eccentric memorial garden to the "warrior" birds of World War I, the messenger pigeons used by the Allied forces.

The second smallest castle keep in England.

One man and his dog, immortalized in a giant statue.

A monument at the site of a decisive battle in the First English Civil War.

A distinctive sculpture honors those killed and injured during a mineworkers strike in 1893.

A powerful statue sits on Scalestone Point, looking out over Morecambe Bay.

A massive flood devastated this seaside town, causing many to speculate about whether the government had figured out how to influence the weather.